diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 74046bda..0ef19d0e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ documented here.
 
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
-## [0.12.0] - WIP
+## [0.12.0]
+The main change of this release is the update of the dependency serde to 1.0.
 
 ### Added
  * `.trace()` that computes the trace of a matrix (i.e., the sum of its
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 43ddd547..f53a1e5d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name    = "nalgebra"
-version = "0.11.3"
+version = "0.12.0"
 authors = [ "Sébastien Crozet <developer@crozet.re>" ]
 
 description = "Linear algebra library with transformations and satically-sized or dynamically-sized matrices."